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Liberace

Outrageously camp and flamboyant, pianist Liberace was - from the 1950s to the 1970s - the world's highest paid entertainer. With his over-the-top stage presentation and gushing persona, Liberace was also one of the most controversial and litigious, taking legal action to counter suggestions that he was gay before he became one of the earliest high profile casualties of AIDS in 1987. Known as Lee to his friends and Walter to his family, he was the American son of Italian and Polish immigrants. Learning to play piano at the age of four, he was particularly influenced by the Polish...